Quality Manager - Advanced RF Division

About the role

The Global Quality Manager drives quality performance, compliance and continuous improvement across global manufacturing operations for RF products, EMI filters, supercapacitors, power and circuit protection devices. The role supports ongoing production, resolves systemic issues, ensures process stability and aligns quality systems and standards across sites to meet internal and customer requirements. It is based in Fountain Inn, South Carolina, and reports directly to the Corporate Vice President of Quality with a dotted-line relationship to the Divisional Vice President.

Key responsibilities

• Lead global initiatives to improve quality performance of products in full-scale production.
• Work with plant quality teams to apply quality systems, control plans and best practices consistently across manufacturing sites.
• Monitor key quality indicators such as DPPM, first-pass yield, scrap rates and customer complaints, and drive corrective actions.
• Support structured problem solving (8D, A3) and root cause analysis, and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented.
• Maintain quality standards, control plans and risk mitigation tools such as PFMEA and process audits.
• Facilitate cross-functional reviews of chronic quality problems and coordinate customer quality responses and corrective action reporting.
• Conduct periodic internal audits to ensure compliance with ISO 9001, IATF 16949 and other standards.
• Coach plant-level quality teams on quality tools, audit readiness and continuous improvement.
• Support corporate quality initiatives and reporting, and contribute to global alignment of policies, systems and KPIs.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Management required; MBA or another advanced degree preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience in manufacturing quality, preferably in EMI, circuit protection or supercapacitor industries.
• Root cause analysis experience (8D, PDCA).
• Hands-on experience with ISO 9001, IATF 16949 or equivalent quality management systems.
• Ability to support high-volume manufacturing and drive operational quality improvements.
• Up to 5% international travel and flexibility in work hours to support global operations.

Required skills

• PFMEA, SPC, MSA and control plans.
• Lean, Six Sigma and other continuous improvement tools.
• Microsoft Office; ERP, MES or quality systems software is a plus.